Countability in Natural Language

Bringing together an international group of researchers, this innovative volume presents the state-of-the-art in research into countability.

List of contents

1. Proportional Many/Much and Most Carmen Dobrovie-Sorin, and Ion Giurgea; 2 . Quantity Systems and the Count/Mass Distinction Jenny Doetjes; 3. Counting Aggregates, Groups and Kinds: Countability from the Perspective of a Morphologically Complex Language Scott Grimm, and Mojmír Döekal; 4. Individuating Matter over Time Manfred Krifka; 5. Reduplication as Summation Charles Lam; 6. Iceberg Semantics for Count Nouns and Mass Nouns: How Mass Counts Fred Landman; 7. Indexical Inference: Counting and Measuring in Context Alice G.B. ter Meulen; 8. Counting and Measuring and Approximation Susan Rothstein; 9. The Count/Mass Distinction for Granular Nouns Peter R. Sutton, and Hana Filip; Index.

About the author

Hana Filip is Professor of Semantics at the Heinrich Heine University in Düsseldorf (Germany). Her research focuses on aspect, genericity, and nominal semantics.

Product details

• Assisted by: Filip Hana (Editor)
• Publisher: Cambridge Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 10.04.2025
• EAN: 9781316630983
• ISBN: 978-1-316-63098-3
• Illustrations: 8 b/w illus. 2 tables, Zeichnungen, schwarz-weiss, Tabellen, schwarz-weiss, Worked examples or Exercises
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > Other languages / Other literatures; LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / Semantics, Grammar, syntax & morphology, Grammar, syntax and morphology, Semantics, discourse analysis, stylistics, Semantics, discourse analysis, etc